CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Gino Giannone
Present Address: Einsteinstr. 14 D-85748 Garching b. Munich Germany
Phone: +49-89-3261803 (private) +49-89-32006-718 (office)
Permanent Address: via dei Deci, 1 I-83048 Montella (AV) Italy
Birth: 07/06/1965 in Zuerich (Switzerland)
Nationalities: Italian and Swiss
E-mail: ggiannon@eso.org

I have 9 years commercial experience in Computing & Information Technology, of which 5 years were as Project Leader working on the optimization of industrial processes.
My special area of expertise are Planning & Scheduling Problems and also LISP programming.
My Notice Period is 2 months.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Italian: mother tongue
German: fluent
English: fluent

HIGHER EDUCATION

1980-85
I graduated from Liceo Scientifico "R. D'Aquino", Montella (AV), Italy.
1985-90
I received a "laurea" degree in Computer Science from "Universita' degli Studi di Milano" Italy.
Final grade: maximum with honors (110/110 e lode)
Master thesis: "Software Reusability and Specialization through a Symbolic Executor-Simplifier for Ada" the SW was written in Common Lisp.
1989-90
I received a Master in Information Technology from CEFRIEL research institute of "Politecnico di Milano" Italy.
Specialization in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence attending the following post-university courses:
Software Engineering, Software Quality, Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Factory Automation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

04/97 to present

SERCO GmbH part of SERCo Limited (England). Serco is an international Task Management and Systems Engineering contractor.
I am working as Scheduling and LISP Expert consultant at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching bei Muenchen (Germany). ESO is an international research institute operating on an astronomical observatory located in La Silla, Chile.
I am working on 2 scheduling projects: Short Term Scheduler and Long Term Scheduler for ESO's new Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory on Cerro Paranal, Chile, in cooperation with the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (U.S.A.).
The system is developed using Common LISP, SQL, and Tcl/Tk in an Unix environment.
The working language in ESO is English.
During this period I attended several technical courses, such as:
"Java programming" with a Sun instructor,
"SQL" with a Sybase instructor.

11/90 to 03/97

Bull HN Sud of Group Bull (France). I worked in the Expert Systems Group as Project Leader in small projects.
The Bull HN Sud Expert Systems Group is part of the Bull HN Italia System Integration Division. Our mission was the optimization of industrial processes and we worked in Northern and Southern Italy.
During this period I attended the following courses:
"Knowledge-Based Scheduling" with instructors: Mark Fox and Monte Zweben during the "International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence".
"Business Management" with a Bull Teacher
"Project Management" with an external Software Consultant Teacher
"Software Quality" to learn and observe ISO-9001 Rules in order to obtain the ISO-9001 Certification of Bull HN Italia System Integration Division, as we effectively obtained in 1995.
"Production Planning Module of SAP R/3" with SAP AG teachers.

Several technical courses in: operating systems, relational data bases, programming methodologies, programming languages such as:
"Object Oriented Analysis"
"Object Oriented Design"
"Artificial Intelligence"
"Common LISP -Clos"
"C++"

DETAILS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

04/97 to
Lisp and Scheduling Expert Consultant at ESO working on two Scheduling projects: Long Term Scheduler and Short Term Scheduler for the new Very Large Telescope located in Cerro Paranal (Chile).

07/95 to 03/97
Project Leader in an optimization cutting stock project in the steel industry Marcora.

05/93 to 06/95
Project Leader in a scheduling project of the montage activities of ATR aircraft for Alenia.

04/92 to 04/93
Project Leader in a School Time Tabling project

05/91 to 03/92
Analyst in a machines scheduling and sequencing project for Braghenti, a weaving factory based in northern Italy.
ESPRIT-II Project CHIC (Constraint Handling in Industry & Commerce)

11/90 to 04/91
Programmer in a Production Planning Project with the objective to develop a software tool able to support the strategic planning people of Aeritalia, an aircraft manufacturing company.

INTERNATIONAL PAPERS

ORGANIZATIONS

Member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence


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